Posted in Art, Culture, Doodling, Film / TV / Video, Laughing, Practice, tagged chicana identity, Madge the manicurist, Palmolive dishwashing liquid, What If So-and-So Were Chicano series on August 31, 2007 | 14 Comments »
You’re Soaking in it, pen and ink doodle on graph paper, doodle © 2007 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
Madge: Ei, alá, you’re so-king in it…
Client: ¡Chale! ¿De véras?
Madge: Sí, hombre, te digo la verdad.
Client: ¡Oralé! ¿Qué pasó? Was there a ganga at Dollar Store?
Madge: Bitche, how did you know??
-Inspired by Topic post, Cleanliness.
-Related to post, Everything [...]
Posted in Laughing, Nature, On the Road, Random, Skies, Travel, tagged cell phone photography, images of cranes on August 30, 2007 | 7 Comments »
A Room with a View, downtown San Jose, CA, August 30, 2007, photo ©
2007 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
Posted in Family, On the Road, Photography, Place, Random, Skies, Things That Fly, Work, Writers, Writing, tagged aerial photographs, aerial shots of San Jose, cell phone photography on August 29, 2007 | 12 Comments »
Arriving San Jose, CA, August 29, 2007, photo © 2007 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
I don’t know if it’s my cell phone camera, the older airplane, or San Jose, but something about this photo reminds me of a bygone era.
We’re staying in downtown San Jose. I love it.
Posted in Essay, Family, Film / TV / Video, Home, Memoir, Personal, Practice, Relationships, Topic Writing, tagged cleaning rituals, folding clothes, memories, mothers and daughters on August 28, 2007 | 16 Comments »
I have a picture in my head of Mom. She’s wearing soft denim shorts to just above her knees. Her hair is in curlers, a red bandana tied around the curlers, a cigarette on her lip. Next to her, on the floor, is a flat metal ashtray, the kind that folds like tin when you bend it. [...]
Posted in 25 Things, Art, Culture, Family, Food, Home, Personal, Photography, Place, Seasons, tagged 57 foods on-a-stick at the Minnesota State Fair, Butter Queen, Fair food, Minnesota history, Minnesota State Fair, Minnesota State Fair Press Kit, summer on August 26, 2007 | 104 Comments »
-Minnesota State Fair Button 2007, quick snapshot after breakfast (notice the little piece of dirt on the middle right edge!), Minneapolis, Minnesota, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
It’s Minnesota State Fair time! And after over 150 years, it’s a Minnesota tradition. The Minnesota State Fair is the 2nd largest State Fair in the [...]
Posted in Art, Everyday Art, Haiku, Home, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Practice, Wake Up, Writing, tagged Haiku, light, Photography, study in red on August 25, 2007 | 13 Comments »
Study In Red, out on the porch, July 2007, Minneapolis, Minnesota, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
last day of July
sun vase over the deck rail
red refracting light
-posted on red Ravine, Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Posted in Bones, Culture, Practice, tagged Koshari, images of women, coyote trickster on August 24, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Womanly and Santa Koshari, doodles © 2000-2007 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
Posted in Art, Bones, Culture, Essay, Gratitude, Personal, Spirituality, Structure, Vision, Wake Up, Work, tagged being productive, finishing what you start, Saint Lucy, Santa Lucia, unfinished projects on August 23, 2007 | 41 Comments »
Half-baked Chicken, a paper mache-in-progress chicken started years ago, photo © 2007 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
I have a retablo painting I did of Santa Lucia carrying her eyeballs on a plate. Saint Lucy is the patron saint of the blind, the saint to invoke for clarity. Vision. She is my favorite saint, possibly because of [...]
Posted in Art, Body, Culture, Dreams, Film / TV / Video, Gratitude, Growing Older, Memoir, Money, Photography, Practice, Relationships, Spirituality, Vision, Writers, Writing, tagged Charis Wilson, Edward Weston, Eloquent Nude, film, Ian McCluskey, Julie Gliniany, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Riverview Theater on August 22, 2007 | 14 Comments »
Riverview Theater, vintage 1948 sign, designed by Liebenberg and Kaplan, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved
A good friend called me last Sunday completely revved up about a film she had seen at the Riverview Theater in Minneapolis. The last showings were scheduled for Sunday at noon and 5:30p.m. and [...]
Posted in Art, Body, Doodling, Family, Food, Photography, Practice, Random, tagged the practice of doodling on August 21, 2007 | 18 Comments »
Bethanny and Grapefruit, pen and ink on graph paper, doodle
© 2007 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
Posted in Body, Bones, Culture, Death, Family, Gratitude, Holding My Breath, Home, Life, Money, Personal, Photography, Place, Practice, Writing, tagged bridges, Gold Medal Park Memorial, Guthrie Theater, I-35 Bridge Collapse, Minneapolis bridge collapse, Minnesota on August 20, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Memorial, By Night, Gold Medal Park, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 5th, 2007, shot through the grove of trees at center circle, facing the I-35 Bridge, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
I heard on the 9p.m. news that they found the final and 13th person from the I-35 Bridge collapse. The final person as far [...]
Posted in Animals & Critters, Bones, Family, Life, Personal, Place, Practice, Random, Work, Writing Practices, tagged rooster attack, the practice of writing on August 19, 2007 | 16 Comments »
-From my practice notebook, 8/9/05 (about two years ago)
My right eye is purple today, the eyelid, the area under my eye. So far the white of my eye is still white but already I can imagine a few days from now the old blood making its way down from the lid to the globus.
Globus. That [...]
Posted in Home, Life, Personal, Practice, Quotes, Secrets, Work, Writing Topics, tagged cleaning house, cleaning rituals, writing about cleanliness on August 18, 2007 | 14 Comments »
Just in case you’re spending the weekend cleaning house, we wanted to give you a writing assignment that might make all that dusting and sweeping and scrubbing and vacuuming feel more like research than time wasted. Or maybe you’re the kind of person who never feels that cleaning is time wasted.
Cleanliness is indeed next to [...]
Posted in Dreams, Family, Laughing, Love, Photography, Practice, Random, Relationships, Seasons, Vehicles, tagged 600 miles, biking to school, courage, fathers and daughters, mountain biking on August 17, 2007 | 16 Comments »
Jim’s Orange (brand) mountain bike, August 17, 2007,
photos © 2007 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
“Daddy, do I have to ride my bike to school today?”
“Yes, it will be fun.”
“But Mom said I could ride the bus some days.”
“Nah, you don’t want to ride the bus.”
“Yes I do.”
“Naaa, you’ll get four miles of riding in today.”
“But [...]
Posted in Bones, Books, Culture, Death, Family, Growing Older, Haiku, Home, Life, Love, Memoir, Nature, On the Road, Personal, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Topic Writing, Wake Up, Work, Writing, Writing Practices, tagged abandoned houses, Haiku, Memoir, memories, Poetry, the practice of haiku, writing about the past on August 17, 2007 | 32 Comments »
You Can’t Go Back, one of the homes I lived in as a child, now abandoned, June 2007, Augusta, Georgia, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
I spent two weeks on the road in June, researching my book. The second week was a road trip with my mother to Georgia, where I spent much [...]
Posted in Family, Life, Love, Personal, Relationships, tagged friendships, the art of making friends on August 16, 2007 | 38 Comments »
I remember one Christmas holiday when Dee was about three. Jim and I took her to the annual bonfire that our town puts on for the kids. Saint Nick was there on a fire truck, and they had cookies and oranges and hot apple cider. Jim and I stood on the perimeter of the bonfire. We didn’t know [...]
Posted in Bones, Culture, Memoir, Personal, Politics, Practice, Structure, Work, Writing, blogroll, tagged sleepaway camp on August 14, 2007 | 5 Comments »
The summer of 2004 I was on a sabbatical from my work. That summer I wrote every day. I also created with three fellow writers a workshop-style group. At the beginning of each week, we emailed to one another new sections from our manuscripts. At the end of the week, we met in person to give feedback on the work each writer had sent. It was [...]
Posted in Art, Doodling, Family, Gratitude, Love, On the Road, Practice, Spirituality, Wake Up, Work, tagged children's art, Look to this Day, sleepaway camp, summer camp for kids on August 14, 2007 | 12 Comments »
This year at my daughters’ summer camp, the art instructor used sketchbooks. She said sketching was in keeping with the theme for the camp, Look To This Day. I think what she meant was that sketching was quick. You capture what’s in front of you — a hand, a tree, maybe a thing floating in [...]
Posted in 25 Things, Gratitude, Great Places To Write, Practice, Work, Writers, Writing, tagged community, red Ravine Guests on August 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Another month has rolled by, so our May guests have rotated off the Guest Writers & Featured Artists widget on the sidebar. You can still locate their pieces, however, by typing their individual names into our Search bar. Or by clicking on Guestwriter or Guestartist under Contributors on the sidebar.
We’d like to take a moment to [...]
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